WATCH: US Airways Pulls Passenger from Plane Who Yelled ‘I Have Ebola’
By Phyllis Stark.
As Ebola panic grips the world, a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, was detained after landing Wednesday after a passenger sneezed then yelled “I have Ebola, you are all screwed.”
The 54-year-old man reportedly also screamed “I have been to Africa,” according to Gawker, which cites Dominican news site Diario Libre and Fox News as its sources.
Flight 850 was boarded by men in blue hazmat suits, who escorted the man off the plane as nearly everyone on board shot video of the incident on their mobile phones. Passengers, which included at least one baby, were reportedly kept on the plane for two hours after landing.
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Comment Prompts Ebola Scare On Flight From Philadelphia
By Matt Rivers.
A single comment about Ebola from one passenger on a flight out of Philadelphia prompted a scare in the air and a dramatic response when the plane finally landed.
We want to tell you up front that no one had Ebola on the plane.
But this situation demonstrates how public health officials are trying to stay on top of the threat and how even a mention of this deadly disease is taken extremely seriously.
It all happened on a U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
For those on board U.S. Air flight 845, it started normal enough. When that flight landed, a flight attendant made this announcement.
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